The following findings and recommendation have been sent to United States District Judge J. Leon Holmes. Any party may serve and file written objections to these findings and recommendation. Objections should be specific and should include the factual or legal basis for the objection. If the objection is to a factual finding, specifically identify that finding and the evidence that supports your objection. An original and one copy of your objections must be received in the Office of the United States District Court Clerk no later than fourteen (14) days from the date of the findings and recommendation. The copy will be furnished to the opposing party. Failure to file timely objections may result in a waiver of the right to appeal questions of fact.

If you are objecting to the recommendation and also desire to submit new, different, or additional evidence, and to have a hearing for this purpose before the District Judge, you must, at the same time that you file your written objections, include the following:

1. Why the record made before the Magistrate Judge is inadequate.

2. Why the evidence proffered at the hearing before the District Judge (if such a hearing is granted) was not offered at the hearing before the Magistrate Judge.

3. The details of any testimony desired to be introduced at the hearing before the District Judge in the form of an offer of proof, and a copy, or the original, of any documentary or other non-testimonial evidence desired to be introduced at the hearing before the District Judge.

From this submission, the District Judge will determine the necessity for an additional evidentiary hearing, either before the Magistrate Judge or before the District Judge.

Mail your objections and "Statement of Necessity" to:

RECOMMENDATION

On September 19, 2002, petitioner Tereginald Wallace ("Wallace") was convicted in an Arkansas state trial court of first degree murder and sentenced as an habitual offender to the custody of respondent Ray Hobbs ("Hobbs"). Wallace filed a state trial court motion for new trial, but the motion was denied. He then appealed his conviction and the denial of his motion for new trial. The Arkansas Court of Appeals found no reversible error and affirmed his conviction and the denial of his motion for new trial in a decision dated May 12, 2004. See Wallace v. State, 2004 WL 1059787 (Ark.App. 2004). Wallace did not subsequently pursue post-conviction relief in the state courts of Arkansas, although he did file a petition for writ of error coram nobis. The petition was eventually denied by the state Court of Appeals in a summary decision dated September 28, 2005.

On September 9, 2005, Wallace challenged his 2002 conviction by filing his first petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254. See Wallace v. Norris, 5:05CV00257 SWW. On October 15, 2008, United States District Judge Susan Webber Wright adopted the findings and recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge Henry L. Jones, Jr., and dismissed the petition on the merits. See Wallace v. Norris, 2008 WL 4616625 (E.D.Ark. 2008). Wallace thereafter sought a certificate of appealability, but his request was denied by Judge Wright on November 21, 2008, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on August 17, 2009.

On March 25, 2014, Wallace again challenged his 2002 conviction by filing the petition at bar pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254.[1] Hobbs responded to the petition by filing the pending motion to dismiss. See Document 20. In the motion, he asked that the petition be dismissed because it is a second or successive petition, and Wallace did not obtain permission from the Court of Appeals to file the petition. Wallace filed a response to Hobbs' motion, after which the undersigned notified Wallace of Hobbs' assertion. Wallace was invited to file any additional materials in response to the motion, and he accepted the invitation by filing a second and third response.

Clearly, the petition at bar is Wallace's second challenge to his 2002 conviction by means of a petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254. The permission, or pre-authorization, of the Court of Appeals is required before the petition can be considered, see 28 U.S.C. 2244(b), and he ...

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